Jun. 12—DOUGLAS COUNTY — After more than a year, the Zoning Committee reversed its position on a zoning change that would allow Up North Resort and Campground in Wascott to expand camping ...

An ATM planned in a majority-Black neighborhood has gone from a PR win for a major Indianapolis bank to a source of criticism ...

Discussions over town boundaries and annexation limits for East Spencer and Spencer, which have been ongoing for several years, appear to finally be coming to fruition. Since the state no longer ...

Retired city planner Jim Duncan has written more than 600 histories of Austin businesses. He's got a book, but the Statesman ...

Voters in Douglas County are deciding whether to become a home rule county. The election is Tuesday, and the issue has stirred up a lot of strong feelings amidst competing claims about what it would ...

“They are trying to change our governmental structure in Douglas County and we don’t even know what that could mean for us.” The general idea of home rule is that it allows more control for certain ...

Citizens opposed to the 60 chicken house poultry operation currently under development on U.S. Highway 441 South in Coffee County near the Satilla River aren’t conceding anything. Monday night, they ...

A controversial housing development plan in Douglas County will not go forward after all after county commissioners voted ...

Industrial Fire Precaution Levels are set to rise to Level 3 in the Douglas District starting Monday, July 14, at 12:01 a.m., ...

Douglas County voters in a special election Tuesday soundly rejected a ballot measure that would have given the county a crack at assuming home-rule authority.

County commissioners say home rule will give Douglas County more independence from a Democratic-controlled statehouse. But critics question the motives behind the effort.

As Independence Day approaches, authorities would like to remind citizens of the fireworks ordinance in Douglas and Sarpy counties.